Improved tonic beverage



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Letters Patent No. 86,172, dated January 26, 1869.

IMPROVED TONIC BEVERAGE.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Dr. JACOB MAYER, of Cleveland, in the county of Guyahoga, and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and improved Tonic Beverage, styled Boonekamp of Maagbitter, and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and complete description of the same.

This beverage possesses all the properties required to constitute a healthful corrective-agent, to give a lively tone and action to the stomach, contains no mineral substances, is very pleasant to the taste, and produces none of those after-effects of drowsiness so common to many of the tonic beverages.

It is admirably calculated to cure dyspepsia and all kindred ailments.

The following are the ingredients employed in compounding the said beverage:

Myrrh; gentiau; agaricus; calamus; cardamom; A'rtemisz'a vulgam's Radix angelica; crocus or Pimptnella am'sam galgant; rhubarb-root; extract licorice; Maschas 'islaml'ica oryza.

Take equal parts of myrrh, Pimp'inella am'sam, and oryza, and a greater quantity of extract licorice, and a minimum quantity, and dissolve in boiling water. Next take equal parts gentian, agaricus, calamus, cardamom, Artemis'ia mdga'ris, Radix angelica, a greater quantity of galgant, and a minimum quantity of rhubarb, and extract them in a suflicient quantity of wine. 

